This issue features stories of people seeking connection in its various forms, including “Midterm” by Leslie Johnson, “The Lost Years” by Patricia Foster, “Easter,” by Bruce Bond, “Private Booth” by Benjamin Landry, “Charismatic Deliverance” by Michelle Mitchell-Foust, “Demirgue” by Candice Wuehle, and more.

This is the year of the stranger for Gold Man Review Issue 4. Not just the people you meet but don't really know, but the moment when you realize someone you love is actually a stranger or you are a stranger to yourself. Gold Man Review features the fiction, nonfiction, and poetry of writers living on the West Coast.

This issue of Ekphrasis features several poems based on art works related to the sea, a universal theme for art and poetry. This volume contains poems by noted ekphrastic poets such as Andrew Miller, Joseph Stanton, George Looney and Heather H. Thomas, among others.

The usual mixture of strong long stories by American writers (and in this case one foreign writer), a few poems and an editorial prelude that uses Matthew Arnold's "best know and said" touchstone to comment on today's world.

Louisiana Literature 32.1 is a special All-Prose issue of the journal featuring work by Tennessee Williams Festival Short Fiction Prize winner Christine Fadden, Robert Kostuck, Richard Louth, and R.T. Smith. The issue also includes representative work from the Summer 2014 New Orleans Writing Marathon.

Structo issue 13 features eight short stories, 14 poems, a piece of creative non-fiction, and two interviews—one a conversation with the Icelandic novelist Sjón and the second a dialogue between Faber New Poets Zaffar Kunial and Will Burns.

In this issue: interviews with some amazing people, including Ellen Jovin, who is learning 19 different languages in her hometown, NYC; incredible adventures, like those of the Turner Twins who rowed 41 days across open ocean, and trekked for two weeks through Greenland; and of course, some sexy stories from girls and boys all over the world.

Historian Christopher Dietrich on the 100-year-long history of American torture; Jeffrey St. Clair on the implications of giving impunity to the CIA’s torturers; Chris Floyd on how the US has exported torture to its client states around the world. David Macaray on the Paradoxes of Police Unions; Louis Proyect on Slave Rebellions in the Open Seas; Paul Krassner on the Perils of Political Cartooning, and more.